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Sources: Apple is winding down Project Titan, its decade-long effort to make an electric car; Apple plans to move some impacted staff to generative AI projects — - Executives tell staff to end work on endeavor known as Titan — Employees on some car teams will move to Apple's AI division
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In abandoning plans for a self-driving car, Apple is giving up on billions in potential revenue and hoping AI, Vision Pro, and other bets make up the difference — - Company needs to restart search for next blockbuster product — Alphabet and Chinese rivals still focused on automotive market| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Memo: Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls Gemini's problematic responses around race “completely unacceptable” and vows to make structural changes to fix the problem — The Scoop — Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the company's Gemini controversy Tuesday evening …
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Internal docs: Tumblr staff compiled users' data in preparation for deals where Automattic would sell the data to OpenAI and Midjourney to train AI tools — Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. — Success — Great! Check your inbox and click the link. — Error
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| Christopher Zara / Fast Company: |
Klarna claims its ChatGPT-powered AI chatbot handles two-thirds of all customer service chats and does the equivalent work of 700 full-time human agents — Klarna is bullish on bots. — One month after taking its OpenAI-powered virtual assistant global, the Swedish buy-now …
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| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
Samsung launches 36Gb 12Hi HBM3E DRAM for AI, slated for mass production in H1 2024, with 50%+ more peak bandwidth and capacity compared to its previous HBM gen — Samsung announced late on Monday the completion of the development of its 12-Hi 36 GB HBM3E memory stacks …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Filing: Nintendo sues the makers of Switch emulator Yuzu in US federal court, alleging it is designed to circumvent Nintendo's encryption and facilitates piracy — If you've ever seen a Steam Deck playing a Legend of Zelda game, chances are you were seeing the Yuzu emulator at work.
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| Chandraveer Mathur / Android Police: |
Google appears to globally roll out “glanceable directions while navigating” on Maps, which shows real-time ETA and turn-by-turn directions on the lock screen — The changes are rolling out across devices and regions — Glanceable directions feature on Google Maps provides real …
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| Mark Stenberg / Adweek: |
Docs: Google is paying a handful of independent publishers a five-figure sum for one year to use an unreleased suite of generative AI tools to post stories — In exchange for a five-figure sum, publishers must use the tool to publish 3 stories per day — Google launched a private program … | Byron Tau / Wired: |
A look at some government contractors that are helping US intelligence agencies and others use targeted mobile ads to track down people — Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, “the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man.”| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Thrasio, which raised $3B+ in equity and debt to acquire third-party Amazon sellers, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and secures $90M in emergency funding — Thrasio, the U.S. start-up that raised billions of dollars and popularized the concept of e-commerce aggregation …
More: Bloomberg, Axios, Reuters, Thrasio Holdings, Inc., and Thrasio Restructuring Site
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
President Biden signs an EO that aims to limit the mass-sale of Americans' personal data like geolocation to “countries of concern”, including China and Russia — The bulk sale of geolocation, genomic, financial and health data will be off-limits to “countries of concern.”| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Stripe and some investors agreed to buy $1B+ of current and ex-employees' shares, valuing it at $65B, up from $50B in 2023, but down from $95B in 2021 — The fintech giant's employees will get a chance to cash out over $1 billion of stock.| Proof: |
A review of Claude, Gemini, GPT-4, Llama 2, and Mixtral found the models often gave inaccurate or misleading election information; GPT-4 was least inaccurate — Experts testing five leading AI models found the answers were often inaccurate, misleading, and even downright harmful
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple met with DOJ Assistant AG Jonathan Kanter last week in a final bid to avoid an antitrust suit, which is expected to be filed by the end of March — - Representatives for iPhone maker met with top officials — Antitrust agency has been probing company since 2019
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Reuters, and Wall Street Journal
| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
TikTok removes all songs published by Universal Music Publishing Group, expanding a licensing spat; at first only songs owned or distributed by UMG were removed — The bruising battle over royalties between Universal Music Group and TikTok entered a new and more severe stage in the early hours … | Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to ~$4.9B and net income down 48% YoY to ~$366M, as chatbot Ernie, which has 100M+ users, began to augment its ads business — - China's AI leader managed to sustain growth last quarter — Baidu joins a crowded roster of tech giants seeking AI riches
More: South China Morning Post, Reuters, Tech in Asia, and Baidu Inc
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A detailed look at the modern chip manufacturing process, involving more than a thousand precisely controlled steps to create a single integrated circuit — After coming up against the limits of physics, scientists are rethinking chip architecture like never before
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